Starting your own Professional Blog
As part of your journey in Teacher Education here at UBC, it is required that you critically reflect on your practice and develop a year-long inquiry into teaching and learning. One way to record your reflections and share your inquiry is by developing professional blog or an e-portfolio. Doing so can also provide you with […]
Blogging in Teacher Education
Social Networking, defined by Gunawardena et al (2009) as the “practice of expanding knowledge by making connections with individuals of similar interests” is a potentially powerful tool for both Post-Secondary Faculty and the K-12 classroom teacher. Through this networking, students are afforded the opportunity to co-create knowledge within a Community of Practice (Wenger et al, […]
Digital Communication: enlarging perspectives and sharing inquiry
Communication is a large part of what teachers do and it is important that we consider how we communicate, what we communicate and with whom. In this post, I look at professional communication in an Inquiry classroom with UBC instructor, Dawn Allen. With her EDUC 450 class, we discussed innovative uses of social media, blogs and other digital tools to support inquiry sharing. At the same time, we ‘troubled’ the benefits and issues involved in digital tech integration.
Export your blog
So now I’ve created a blog, website or eP using UBC Blogs WordPress… what do I do when I graduate? As an alumni, you will continue to have access to your CWL and UBC Blogs account. Your blog(s) can live on and stay on UBC’s FIPPA compliant, secure servers. You may decide, however, that you’d […]
Assistive Technologies in the classroom
Assistive technologies (AT) refers to various technologies that teachers can use or make available to students to support equity in the classroom. Integrating assistive technologies following Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles can help all students find success as they share in an equitable and meaningful educational experience. In particulary, these digital technologies support students […]
